Songtext Driving in the rain John Wesley Harding

Driving in the rain

With all your vice and volume the whole of last week
The plastic pretenders to paradise speak
Of your fictions of triumph and legends of pain
The sense that youd left youd be back once again
Theres a glint in your eyes and the sky starts to laugh
Its two to one you never did things by half
And Im out on the rooftops yelling your name
Cos without you this town will be too much the same

You went driving in the rain
Ill never see you again
Theres nothing in the air left to compare
To all of your passion and genius pain
You went driving in the rain
Ill never see you again

There was talk of an illness that came by surprise
The papers did penance, the whole town took sides
Oh, but it was your dancing and mischeivous mind
And then we were shot of you, but no-ones that blind
And theres flowers have bloomed down the side of your street
Where you and your demons did openly meet
And I hope its wide open where youve got to
Theres closed minds in this town that couldnt accept you

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Theyre making excuses, the reasons the facts
Theyre reasoning how long youll take to come back
But theres guilt in their prayers, maybe shame in their pride
They know it was no fault of yours down inside
They steps cant be retraced cos tracks disappear
And thered be no welcome for you back here
Because you were the worst side of everyones soul
They had to get rid or face up to the cold

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